Following her groundbreaking short film \u201cWelcome to Welcome Quarter,\u201d many in the UChicago film community sensed a more avant-garde sensibility in Melina Hale\u2019s quarterly welcome videos. Here are some of their observations about her latest work, \u201cWelcome to Spring Quarter\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 0:05, there\u2019s a little maroon box next to Hale\u2019s name. <\/strong>This represents the dichotomy between thinking \u201cinside the box\u201d and \u201coutside the box.\u201d Hale recognizes that, as a member of bourgeois society, her art reflects her privileged social position; yet, as an artist, she seeks to use her art to relate to the four students who didn\u2019t immediately delete her email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At 1:20, Hale receives a postcard. <\/strong>The postcard has information telling you where to find the BA art thesis exhibition. The image of the postcard seen after the cross-fade does not. Hale\u2019s message is clear: Because art is elusive, it must be almost impossible to find. Hence why it once took my Via twenty-three minutes to find the Logan Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At 2:10, Hale\u2019s image is subsumed by the UChicago logo.<\/strong> Just like how everything in your life will soon be subsumed by p-sets and midterms. Happy Spring Quarter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 0:05, there\u2019s a little maroon box next to Hale\u2019s name. This represents the dichotomy between thinking \u201cinside the box\u201d and \u201coutside the box.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":7651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7652,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions\/7652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}